Subscribe here: [ Ссылка ] Germany has decided to re-establish border controls and has deported Afghan immigrants. While some EU member states have criticized it for going it alone, supporters of the 'Fortress Europe' idea have welcomed the policy change.
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Germany’s latest move to reinstate border controls is more than just a temporary fix; it is a sign of deeper cracks within the country’s migration policy.
Since the Ventimiglia crisis in 2011, internal border controls in the Schengen zone have been an increasingly common tool to address migration pressures.
Germany, as the most frequently-impacted member state, has often resorted to EU safeguard clauses to manage the flow of people. However, what sets this latest decision apart is not the act itself but its magnitude in the absence of an immediate border crisis. This time, it reveals a more structural issue within Germany’s approach to integration and migration. If left unaddressed, this policy shift could put the entire European project at risk.
Border control reinstatements have become a familiar pattern in the Schengen zone over the last decade. The Ventimiglia crisis of April 2011 marked the beginning of a series of temporary border control reinstatements within the EU, with Germany often at the forefront.
This approach became most visible during the 2015 refugee crisis, when Germany, facing exceptional migration pressure, utilised safeguard clauses within EU law to reintroduce checks at its borders. Since then, sporadic controls have persisted, as seen in Germany’s recent actions to curb irregular migration on its borders with Switzerland and Poland.
Germany has often leaned on EU safeguard clauses to control the movement of people, illustrating the weight put on the country by migration management in the EU framework. In recent years, border checks between Germany and its neighbouring countries, like Austria, Poland, and Switzerland, have been frequently reinstated to manage the influx of asylum seekers.
This autumn, Europe has opened up a new tense political phase on the inflammatory topic of immigration. Germany has reintroduced border controls at its intra-EU land borders and started deporting Afghan refugees to Kabul, while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been threatening to send migrants from Budapest to Brussels by bus. According to several diplomats in the Belgian capital, the topic of immigration will be on the agenda at the mid-October summit of European leaders.
Since the start of the year, however, the number of irregular migrant arrivals recorded in the European Union by Frontex has fallen by 36% (113,400 arrivals by the end of July). The 27 EU member states finalized the "Pact on Migration and Asylum" in June, aimed at jointly managing these arrivals, all while signing migration agreements with Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon. However, this has not had the political impact that the parties in power had expected. Quite the contrary, in fact.
In June, the rise of far-right parties in the European elections – but also in France's snap parliamentary elections and, more recently, in regional elections in two eastern German Länder – the triumphs of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland and anti-immigration left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance parties have brought the migration issue back to the fore.
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